Apar Kothari

Apar Kothari

Apar Kothari is currently VP and Head of New Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Rue La La, where she is responsible for identifying game-changing opportunities for the company. Prior to Rue La La, Apar was CEO and co-founder of MyNines, the first and only aggregator of sample sales sites. While MyNines embodied the perfect blend of Apar’s passion for fashion and entrepreneurship, she didn’t have the resources to scale it and ended up taking the assets to RLL. According to Rue La La President, Steve Davis, “Apar’s knowledge of the private sale space, relationships and experience in planning and strategy make her an invaluable addition to the Rue La La team.”

Prior to MyNines, Apar was a Manager in the Corporate Strategy group at Fox Interactive Media, where she worked on M&A, joint ventures and commercial deals for FIM’s portfolio of entertainment sites (MySpace, IGN, Photobucket, Rotten Tomatoes and others). Prior to Fox, Apar was at Rustic Canyon Partners, a $1 billion early-stage venture capital firm in LA. Apar started her career in IBM’s Corporate Development group, focusing on Venture Capital and later Mergers & Acquisitions.

Apar received her B.S. from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and her M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, where she was Associate Editor for the Harbus and COO of the VC/PE Club. Apar is also an MBA application consultant, is fluent in Gujrati and loves to ski, travel, shop on Melrose Avenue, and cheer for her New England Patriots. Apar has been published in Women’s Wear Daily, Lucky, InStyle, Seventeen, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Huffington Post, Portfolio.com, and more…